Using items other than fleece to protect plants from frost?

Evening all,

With a predicted frost on the way I was wondering if anyone could recommend anything I can use (apart from fleece I think its called - its white and rips too easy!) to protect my young small gooseberries & roses?

If my memory serves me right(?) I recall using newspaper wrapped around a plant to help protect it from frost?

Thank you for your suggestions,

Samuel

 

I think you need to use fleece or risk losing the lot

 

I don't know about roses, but goosegogs are as tough as old boots. I planted some on my land one spring (which is on high exposed ground), and it promptly snowed a week later and buried the young plants under about 2 ft of snow. They were still there, and alive, when it thawed, until the rabbits found them.

 

Fleece lets the light and moisture through, newspaper will make the plant be in the dark!! It can be a bit fragile but it really works well.

Val

 

Don't panic too much, at this time of year we're only looking at radiation frosts, not the deep penetrating frosts caused by an Easterly low pressure system.

Bit of net curtain will be enough to keep it off

 

Roses are also very tough.

In London, any frost would be lessened by the effect of the urban environment. But glancing at the Midlands forecast for the week there's nothing below 4 degrees forecast for the nights so I can't think London would be much different.

 

Thanks for your replies.

Apparently in the next few days it may get quite cold.

Maybe I am just being over protective of my plants